Thread etiquette

[JANFU]

From what I understand, if a member does not post in a thread, one cannot tag them.
If they vote/like a post, is that participation?
My opinion is yes.
Asking for my cat, Muck, he is quite curious

 

[StarvedForChange]

Yeah, I think it's fair to say voting in a poll qualifies as participation in a thread.

 

[Phys251]

From what I understand, if a member does not post in a thread, one cannot tag them.
If they vote/like a post, is that participation?
My opinion is yes.
Asking for my cat, Muck, he is quite curious
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Thumbs up for the cat pic.

 

[Felis Leo]

From what I understand, if a member does not post in a thread, one cannot tag them.
If they vote/like a post, is that participation?
My opinion is yes.
Asking for my cat, Muck, he is quite curious
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If I were vote in a public poll but I did not post further in the thread, I think I am fair game to be tagged. I would think that is part of the point of making the poll public, so that we know we can be held accountable or called out for how we vote.

 

[Helix]

As I understand it, alerting a poster to a thread that they might be interested in is ok. Baiting a non-participating poster using the @ is not, and will be considered a call out. I'm sure that other mods might be able to explain it a bit better than that. As for me, I think that you're all intelligent and can figure out the difference.

 

[Boots]

Thanks for the info. I was unaware of this rule. It makes sense.

 

[noonereal]

As I understand it, alerting a poster to a thread that they might be interested in is ok. Baiting a non-participating poster using the @ is not, and will be considered a call out. I'm sure that other mods might be able to explain it a bit better than that. As for me, I think that you're all intelligent and can figure out the difference.

IMHO, too much grey.
You can or you can't.

Should be no confusion as there seems to be.

 

[JANFU]

As I understand it, alerting a poster to a thread that they might be interested in is ok. Baiting a non-participating poster using the @ is not, and will be considered a call out. I'm sure that other mods might be able to explain it a bit better than that. As for me, I think that you're all intelligent and can figure out the difference.

OK is late, and I do not wish to mess up
People are sleeping, so I can wait for a ruling on this

 

[JANFU]

IMHO, too much grey.
You can or you can't.

Should be no confusion as there seems to be.

The grey area is, from what I understand, never asked before
Just asking for clarification

 

[JANFU]

Thanks for the info. I was unaware of this rule. It makes sense.

It does, precludes harassment, callouts and such
There are other sub forums for that

 

[Ishm]

So I am quite OK posting this to Janfu?

@JANFU - that's a funny place to put a *****. Is that a Canadian thing.

 

[Allan]

Muck is my favorite thing about this thread.

 

[MaryP]

As I understand it, alerting a poster to a thread that they might be interested in is ok. Baiting a non-participating poster using the @ is not, and will be considered a call out. I'm sure that other mods might be able to explain it a bit better than that. As for me, I think that you're all intelligent and can figure out the difference.

And here I thought we were supposed to tag anyone we mentioned, as good manners (not talking behind their backs). Live and learn.

 

[Allan]

And here I thought we were supposed to tag anyone we mentioned, as good manners (not talking behind their backs). Live and learn.

I've been dinged for tagging

 

[eman623]

From what I understand, if a member does not post in a thread, one cannot tag them.
If they vote/like a post, is that participation?
My opinion is yes.
Asking for my cat, Muck, he is quite curious
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If it's for your cat, wouldn't that be Thread Eti-cat?